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Re:Resizing Partitions

It&#039;s not just linux...it&#039;s just the way computers are designed these days...you get 4 partitions, and if you want more you need to make the last one extended.

I&#039;m not sure how you&#039;d do this without losing data. You can try gparted and see if that has any features that help you out. http://gparted.sf.net/ . It uses libparted, which has these features: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/ . I&#039;ve never used it myself but maybe you&#039;ll get lucky.

Alternatively, do you have enough space on /dev/hda1, 2, or 3 to copy over your /dev/hda4 data and then wipe hda4 and make an extended partition?

Re:Resizing Partitions

[quote author=Tyr_7BE link=board=1;threadid=10061;start=0#msg91114 date=1102817807]
Alternatively, do you have enough space on /dev/hda1, 2, or 3 to copy over your /dev/hda4 data and then wipe hda4 and make an extended partition?
[/quote]If then, you will have to remove /dev/hda4 which is Windows95 partition. If Windows is on there, I don&#039;t think it will like to reside in extended partition.

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[quote author=Compunuts link=board=1;threadid=10061;start=0#msg91117 date=1102830271]
[quote author=Tyr_7BE link=board=1;threadid=10061;start=0#msg91114 date=1102817807]
Alternatively, do you have enough space on /dev/hda1, 2, or 3 to copy over your /dev/hda4 data and then wipe hda4 and make an extended partition?
[/quote]If then, you will have to remove /dev/hda4 which is Windows95 partition. If Windows is on there, I don&#039;t think it will like to reside in extended partition.
[/quote]

Mmm Compunuts is right. If windows isn&#039;t on a primary partition it gets mad at you and won&#039;t boot. If hda4 is holding Windows you might be out of luck here, as extended partitions can only reside on the fourth primary partition (from what I understand)